Malware

Every company today has security vulnerabilities and threats from many angles. Individuals will attempt to take advantage of these vulnerabilities to reach their goal. Others will think what they are doing is a joke or legal or worse yet believe they will not get caught. Some are easy to detect, others are not and require prioritization to handle the data from its original location, create an analysis plan, gather the evidence, and create the evidence reports which must comply with all the laws…

For the purposes of this project, the international investment company in question is Zunis Investments. Zunis is an international investment company headquartered in New York, USA with operations in the North American, European and Asian continent, specifically in countries such as Mexico, USA, UK, Finland, Sweden, France, Japan, China and India. They are doing an IT security upgrade and as part of the interview process for this work, they have asked for a scenario in which the company may be…

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) David L. Haywood CIS 333 – Networking Security Fundamentals Professor Arend Clayborn Strayer University 25 January 2015 Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Within this paper I will attempt to give a clear picture of this new concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is about. I’ll do this by compartmentalizing several areas that will be discussed to ensure clarity and understanding of the information I am presenting. The first area of discussion focuses on the meaning…

written off as ordinary. What I have learned travels far beyond the concept of what a computer is. I have learned what a computer can do. I have seen the havoc a virus can wreak. I now fear the camera on my laptop at times because of the horror of malware. I hear stories told by the Information Technology workers at my school about hackers and their time served in prison or working for the government without any personal technology that can access the World Wide…

TJX & Heartland – Breach Impact Facts on the case study In August year 2008, eleven individuals were accused of the burglary of more than 40 million credit and plastic numbers from the following stores: T. J. Maxx, Marshall’s, Barnes and Noble, OfficeMax, and other significant retailers. Engineering by PC programmer Albert Gonzalez, the case study stays as one of the biggest cheats of MasterCard data ever. The Heartland case was like the TJX case. Somewhere around the year 2007 and 2009, the…

Apple vs. Microsoft Apple and Microsoft are two of the top companies in the tech industry in an already huge market. Both are two very different companies in what innovations they might offer and price points making it difficult for some people to decide which one is the best path to take taking into consideration their needs. Although Apple and Microsoft are leaders of innovation in the Technological industry they have diverged their own top products with expense, upkeep and safety where one…

Telos security solutions can benefit businesses as well as government agencies. As you know, cyber security breaches have had a profound impact on commerce and infrastructure. The topic is receiving ongoing media coverage: • Nearly 1 million new malware threats are release every day (CNN/Money, April 14, 2015) • Cybercrime costs the average U.S. firm $15 million a year (CNN/Money, Oct. 8, 2015) • DHS said cyber attics on critical manufacturing doubled in 2015 (The Hill, Jan. 15, 2016) •…

the possible ways autonomous vehicles can be attacked through the internet, while also offering possible ways to protect against these attacks. There is a long list of possible attack methods, ranging from jamming the various sensors to inputting malware into the devices’…

What is ‘IT SECUIRTY’? IT security is the implementation of defending illegal, unauthorized access to society’s personal information, and to design systems to securely safeguard documents, held on ICT equipment and applications. We need to have this type of security due to; General society, businesses, organizations and the government, all using ICT based applications and technology to store valuable data, such as; Names, addresses, contact information, phone calls, credit history, medical…

Connected Cars: Traditional Automobile Industry’s Strive for Relevance A connected car is an intelligent motor vehicle with in-built internet accessibility, which enables it to interact with a host of objects, such as – smartphones and wearables, city infrastructure such as smart parking and traffic signaling systems, surrounding motor vehicles, home/office automation devices, cloud infrastructure, etc. The traditional automotive industry is ripe for disruption over the next few years as the…